Sylvia Fisher

Sylvia Fisher was the ereigning dramatic soprano at London's Royal Opera House during the 1950s. She studied initially in her native Melbourne, making her operatic debut in a production of Lully's Cadmus et Hermione in 1932. Strangely, she made no more stage appearances for 15 years, concentrating instead on recitals and oratorio and the occasional radio performance of such operas as Don Giovanni and Aida. After moving to England in 1947, she made her Royal Opera House debut the following year as Leonore in Beethoven's Fidelio. Following Fidelio, she appeared as the Countess i...